Welcome to Dyce & Sons.
We’re a small business consultancy that specialise in database and mobile applications.
We’re based in Elgin, which is in the North-East of Scotland, between Aberdeen and Inverness. It’s the main town in Moray, and some argue the centre of the Scots Whisky Industry.
One class of Mac application currently going through a renaissance is the outliner: a tool for ordering your thoughts hierarchically. In the mid–1990s we saw most word-processing and presentation applications include some form of outlining feature, which at the time made sense, seen as a way for writers to plan documents, or for managers to [...]
read moreNo review is ever written in isolation, absent from context. Usually, you can guess the reviewer’s bias within a few paragraphs, and compensate accordingly. He hates LCD display quality, she dislikes proprietary software, they yearn for the days of full bandwidth vinyl. You get the idea. So here’s some context up front. This July, I’ll [...]
read moreComposed of standard looking battery-powered pen and rechargeable receiver module, the IRISNotes Executive aims to relieve some of the tedium of transcribing handwritten notes by converting your scribblings into useable text and drawings. Designed to work independently of your PC or Mac, you attach the receiver unit to the top of your page – either [...]
read moreApple’s bijou desktop, packed with everything a small business needs from a server
read moreA cross–platform database app that’s ideal for casual spreadsheet users
read moreForget ‘think different’, the motto for the £29 Snow Leopard upgrade was ‘think thin’: hold the new features and concentrate on making it lean and fast. At £399, Snow Leopard Server 10.6 is cheaper too: its motto is ‘bigger, better, faster, more’. ’64-bit kernel’ might not mean much to desktop users, but on a server [...]
read moreWhen you outgrow your Bento database, this cross-platform app meets your power-user
read moreFor Mac users, FileMaker Pro has dominated the database market for some time now. Its legendary ease of use, cross-platform nature, and less-than-terrifying learning curve seem to have put its few of its rivals out of the running. In the previous two versions (7.0 and 8.0) most of the remaining bugbears – such as easy [...]
read moreBoasting more than 750,000 users on the Windows platform, MindJet’s MindManager 6 for Mac is designed to make it easier for users to organise their thoughts using mind maps and organisational charts. To create a mind map, you simply open a new document and start typing. MindManager gives you a central topic, with the title [...]
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Mentioning TextMate in a BBEdit review is a dangerous thing. Both apps have, let’s say, an enthusiastic following and comparisons are apt to draw flaming emails. Despite both being essentially apps for editing text, the philosophies are clearly different. TextMate is an extreme programming, customise-the-plane-in-flight type app, whose designers have a clear dislike of application [...]
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